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Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series’ future.

Take a look at our definitive timeline of spy and author Alexander Wilson's mysterious, extraordinary life, spanning from his birth in 1893, through his marriages, the births of his children and all the way through his untimely death in 1963.